double-O arches at arches NP

Ah, another day, another hike where I feel like I'm going to die alone in the desert. Today I explored Arches National Park, where I must say the little piles of rocks trails were much better maintained than those at Canyonlands'. My apologies to the hottie ranger at Canyonlands, but your trails blow compared to Arches. Btw there's a very hot park ranger who works at Canyonlands, he hunted me down to talk to me because he saw my NY plates and he's from Buffalo. I couldn't have been happier to talk about that crappy town with him. But other than that guy, there's little reason to choose Canyonlands over Arches.

So I started off my hike this morning with a friend I met at the Lazy Lizard hostel, where I am staying and where one can procure a clean bed for a mere 9 dollars, but we parted ways after a bit because she had a skydiving appointment at 10am (ref: "extreme sports types" in the previous entry). Then I proceeded to go through a whole trail loop that was much longer than I expected (god forbid I check a map), and I ended up sweating my face off in the mid-morning sun once again. The scenery was really nice though, and the hike was pleasant before the sun was in full force.


"dark angel," a landmark that is not nearly as cool-looking as its name would imply.

Oh and to make matters worse, these parks are all inexplicably filled up with European tourists, who go hiking in chic little outfits and carry around little Evian bottles and who never sweat or pant no matter what. How do those French ladies do it? They always look cool and stylish, even in the desert in August. When I was camping in Canyonlands I saw a German family that was driving around in a huge kelly green antique chevy pick-up with a matching green trailer, how cute is that? Even their camping gear was stylin!

On a completely unrelated note: You know what the worst thing about not having a home is? There's no place to send Netflix. When I had to cancel my Netflix account it was like tearing my first born from my breast, there are few words to describe how much I love Netflix. And now they keep sending me taunting emails, that say things like "Come back to Netflix for only $4.99!" Oh Netflix gods, don't you understand that if I could I would? Man I miss my zombie movies.

1:33 PM;

Like a drifter i was born to walk alone...